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COMMITMENT AND
RESPONSIBILITY – An interview with Ulrike Freitag in the anniversary
booklet of the Philipp Schwartz-Initiative
In 2021, the Philipp
Schwartz-Initiative by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is celebrating
its fifth anniversary. It has been granting funding to universities and
research institutions in Germany to host threatened researchers for a
period of up to two years since 2016. ZMO hosted already a number of
Philipp Schwartz Fellows and its director Ulrike Freitag has been an
academic mentor to many of them. In the interview, she speaks about
challenges, bureaucratic hurdles and why it can be particularly hard for
fellows in the humanities to find a foothold after their scholarship
ends. "We provide support in the form of intensive coaching in
formulating applications to organisations like the DFG or Humboldt
Foundation", says Freitag.
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6 May
2021, 3 pm, virtual event
Women and public space in Turkey:
a gendered history of participation and democratic practices
Lecture by Selda
Tuncer (Yüzüncü Yıl University, Van) as part of the "The Historicity of
Democracy Seminar"
Based on a critical feminist
understanding of the Turkish modernity experience, this lecture focuses
on the period between 1950 and 1980, a more mature phase of the Turkish
modernization process. Selda Tuncer analyzes how
middle-class women of different generations participated in new forms of
everyday public life in the modernizing capital city. In contrast with
trends of the scholarship on women and public space in the region
focusing on veiled women, S. Tuncer devotes her
attention to women struggling in their daily life in a society both
predominantly Muslim society and organized according to secular
principles. The lecture will thus explore how women’s urban experience
and everyday participation were shaped by patriarchal traditions as well
as social and moral codes of public behaviour that are intrinsic to both
religious and secular ideologies.
For registration, please
send an email to HISDEMAB@gmail.com
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10 May
2021, 5 pm, virtual event
Revolutionary Pasts. Communist
Internationalism in Colonial India
Book presentation by Ali Raza
(Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)
This book charts the lives,
geographies, and anti-colonial struggles of Indian revolutionaries and
how they sought to remake the world. Driven by the utopian dreams of
Communist Internationalism, these individuals yearned for a revolutionary
upheaval that would overthrow European imperialisms and global
capitalism. Ali Raza presents this story from the vantage point of key
revolutionary figures who created a ‘communism of the everyday’ in South
Asia.
Ali Raza is a historian of South Asia and Associate Professor for history
at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. His research and
teaching interests include the social and intellectual history of modern
South Asia, comparative colonialisms, decolonization, and post-colonial
theory.
Please register
at registration@zmo.de
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18 May
2021, 6 pm, virtual event
Launch of 3al-Janib
Newspaper presentation by the
research project "Liminal Spaces"
3al-Janib (‘ala -l-janib or ‘on the side’) tells stories from the
margins about moments where the world around us can be reimagined
differently. These liminal moments, when individuals or groups decide to
bend formal regulations and rethink the use of resources around them, are
moments where new social relations and knowledge are forged, and
alternative conceptualisations of a brighter future are introduced. The
newspaper format allows for the drafts and the notes that are already
present in the different research projects on which the publication
builds, and which were part of a collaborative effort by partners in
Morocco, Egypt, Palestine and Germany entitled Liminal Spaces as Sites of
Socio-Cultural Transformation and Knowledge Production in the Arab World
(funded by Volkswagen Foundation).
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26 May
2021, 10 am, virtual event
The Gapar
Aitiev Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts, the
Memomusor Project and the ‘trashification’
of historical memory
Lecture by Lilit
Dabagian, organised by the research unit
Representations of the Past in cooperation with the Leibniz Research
Alliance "Wert der Vergangenheit".
The lecture and discussion will be
held in Russian language!
Lilit Dabagian
is an independent media researcher and works as a freelance project
designer and workshop leader in the field of intergenerational memory
projects within the "post-socialist" space. As part of the
online history camp "Coping with Painful Pasts" (2020), funded
by the Körber Foundation, she worked with young
participants from Georgia, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova on constructive
and creative ways of coming to terms with the past.
Please register
at david.leupold@zmo.de
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27 May
2021, 3 pm, virtual event
Claims for humanitarian
sovereignty, forms of political participation and the question of
democracy in 20th century Egypt
Lecture by Esther Möller (Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz) as part of the "The Historicity of
Democracy Seminar"
The presentation discusses
humanitarian aid as a form of political participation in 20th century
Egypt. By stressing Egyptian humanitarian groups as active players and
not only passive recipients of aid during the many crises the country had
to face, it is argued that this also contributed to the political
engagement of different groups and for different reasons and thus to
further negotiate the question of democracy in Egypt. The main argument
is that the claims for humanitarian sovereignty that these groups
expressed were not only an expression of Egyptian self-determination
towards external forces, but also of anti-colonial solidarity in the
region and finally a response to popular movements within the country.
For registration, please
send an email to HISDEMAB@gmail.com
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27 May
2021, 5 pm, virtual event
Emotive Circulation: 19th Century
Islamophobia in Anglophone Newspapers in India and the United States
Lecture by Peter Gottschalk
(Wesleyan University, USA) as part of the ZMO Colloquium
Through a globalizing newspaper
network, the British empire served as a vector for ideas and emotions
promoting Islamophobia, anti-Muslim sentiment, and religious tolerance in
ways still evident today. Anglophone newspapers published in India,
Britain, and the United States in the nineteenth century reflected both
the imaginaries and the emotions that helped constitute, reinforce, and
challenge normative regimes of social belonging and religious commitment.
The continuous interface among Anglophone newspapers that coalesced into
a global and globalizing network resulting directly from (and often were
supportive of) the operations of the British empire.
Please register
at registration@zmo.de
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31 May
2021, 5 pm, virtual event
Spaces of Participation: Dynamics
of Social and Political Change in the Arab World
Book presentation with the editors
Randa Aboubakr (Cairo
University), Sarah Jurkiewicz (ZMO), Yazid Anani
(A.M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah) and Ulrike
Freitag (ZMO)
Where do people meet, form
relations of trust, and begin debating social and political issues? Where
do social movements start? In this fascinating collection, scholars and
activists from a wealth of disciplinary backgrounds, including sociology,
anthropology, history, and political science, take a fresh look at these
questions and the factors leading to political and social change in the
Arab world from a spatial perspective. Based on original field work in
Egypt, Kuwait, Morocco, and Palestine, Spaces of Participation connects
and reconnects social, cultural, and political participation with urban
space. It explores timely themes such as formal and informal spaces of
participation, alternative spaces of cultural production, space
reclamation, and cultural activism, and the reconfiguring of space
through different types of contestation.
Please register
at registration@zmo.de
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Summer
Semester 2021, starting on 5 May 2021, 2 pm
Berlin Anthropology Seminars
Summer 2021
Organised by Kai Kresse, Judith
Albrecht, Paola Ivanov, Claudia Liebelt and
Jonas Bens
This seminar series constitutes a joint initiative by anthropologists
from FU Berlin, ZMO, and Ethnologisches Museum.
It intends to shape and cultivate an inclusive platform and open regular
meeting point for exchange and discussion on current research by Berlin
based anthropologists. Please spread the word among colleagues, junior or
senior, who may be interested.
For further questions contact
lisa.maier@fu-berlin.de
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Call for
Chapters
The Historicity of
Democracy in the Arab and Muslim worlds
In the framework of the HISDEMAB
research project on the historicity of democracy in the Arab and Muslim
worlds, funded by the Leibniz-Association, we are welcoming original
chapters for a collective book edited by Nora Lafi (ZMO). The authors
will be invited to present their chapter in a workshop in Berlin in March
2022.
Abstract deadline: 9 July 2021
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Nikolaos Olma
Driving in the
shadows. Rural-urban labour migrants as informal taxi drivers in
post-socialist Tashkent
In: Turaeva,
Rano; Urinboyev, Rustamjon (Ed.). Labour,
Mobility and Informal Practices in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern
Europe. Power, Institutions and Mobile Actors in Transnational Space.
Routledge, 2021, p. 36-50.
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Hilal Alkan
Temporal
Intersections of Mobility and Informality: Simsars
as (Im)moral Agents in the Trajectories of
Syrian Refugees in Turkey and Germany
In: Migration Letters, 18, 2. Special Issue:
Transnational (Im)-mobilities and Informality
in Europe, p. 201-213.
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Factory of Fear
Podcast with Noura Chalati.
Branch 251, Syrian Atrocity Crimes
On Trial
, 16 April 2021.
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Dschidda ist anders
Review of Ulrike Freitag's
monograph "A History of Jeddah".
zenith,
15 April 2021.
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Zwischenräume
Review of Sarah Jurkiewicz's edited volume on refugee women in
Berlin-Marzahn.
leibniz, 6 April
2021.
Die Leibniz-Gemeinschaft verlost drei Exemplare des Buches,
Einsendeschluss ist der 15.5.2021!
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Glühstrümpfe und ich
Article by Silke Nagel.
Archivspiegel, 12 April 2021.
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Rahina Muazu appointed a visiting lecturer and a research
associate at Harvard Divinity School
Rahina Muazu (associated research
fellow at ZMO) will start her one-year-position in August 2021. At
Harvard she will work on "The Female Voice in the Qurʾan and Qurʾan
Commentary: Rereading verse 33:32 from a Gender Perspective" and
teach a course with the title "Gender, Islam and Debates
surrounding Female Vocal Nudity in West Africa (Nigeria and Niger)".
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Nico Putz receives prize for his MA thesis on Naxalite movements
ZMO student assistant
Nico Putz has been granted funding for his MA thesis by the Berliner Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft e.
V. and the Erhard Höpfner Stiftung. He is writing his thesis at HU
Berlin on "The global sixties in India - Reflections on networks and
perception of the Naxalite movement".
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